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The Unsustainable Rise of the Disability Rolls in the United States : Causes, Consequences, and Policy Options

Autor, David H. - 2012

Insurance program (SSDI). First, the program is ineffective in assisting the vast majority of workers with less severe … discusses the challenges facing the SSDI program, explains how its design has led to rapid and unsustainable growth, considers …, their efficacy is unproven. Additionally, even well-meaning efforts to place the SSDI program on a sustainable trajectory …

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Disability Programs, Health and Retirement in Denmark Since 1960

Bingley, Paul - 2011

This paper investigates the interaction between measures of health, disability pension take up and labor market performance in Denmark by charting their development over time and by examining how they are affected by key policy reforms in the area of early retirement. The main emphasis is on the...

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Disability, Pension Reform and Early Retirement in Germany

Börsch-Supan, Axel H. - 2011

The aim of this paper is to describe for (West) Germany the historical relationship between health and disability on the one hand and old-age labor force participation or early retirement on the other hand. We explore how both are linked with various pension reforms. To put the historical...

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Disability and Social Security Reforms : The French Case

Behaghel, Luc - 2011

The French pattern of early transitions out of employment is basically explained by the low age at "normal" retirement and by the importance of transitions through unemployment insurance and early-retirement schemes before access to normal retirement. These routes have exempted French workers...

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Health, Disability and Pathways to Retirement in Spain

Garcia-Gomez, Pilar - 2011

In this paper we analyze the trends in labor force participation and transitions to benefit programs of older workers in relation to health trends as well as recent Social Security reforms. Our preliminary conclusions are pessimistic regarding the effect of health improvements on the labor...

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Moral Hazard and Claims Deterrence in Private Disability Insurance

Autor, David H. - 2012

We provide a detailed analysis of the incidence, duration and determinants of claims made on private Long Term Disability (LTD) policies using a database of approximately 10,000 policies and 1 million workers from a major LTD insurer. We document that LTD claims rates are much lower than claims...

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An Assessment of the Effectiveness of Anti-Poverty Programs in the United States

Ben-Shalom, Yonatan - 2013

We assess the effectiveness of means-tested and social insurance programs in the United States. We show that per capita expenditures on these programs as a whole have grown over time but expenditures on some programs have declined. The benefit system in the U.S. has a major impact on poverty...

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The Disability Employment Puzzle : A Field Experiment on Employer Hiring Behavior

Ameri, Mason - 2015

People with disabilities have low employment and wage levels, and some studies suggest employer discrimination is a contributing factor. Following the method of Bertrand and Mullainathan (2003), new evidence is presented from a field experiment that sent applications in response to 6,016...

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Work Incentives in the Social Security Disability Benefit Formula

Goda, Gopi Shah - 2015

We examine the connection between taxes paid and benefits accrued under the Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI … disability benefits received from an additional dollar of earnings, net of the SSDI payroll tax, generally declines with age …

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Disability Benefit Generosity and Labor Force Withdrawal

Mullen, Kathleen - 2016

A key component for estimating the optimal size and structure of disability insurance (DI) programs is the elasticity of DI claiming with respect to benefit generosity. Yet, in many countries, including the United States, all workers face identical benefit schedules, which are a function of...

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